Snowy Wishes Read Free

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    Robyn peered through one of the large windows. The Norwegian sky was filled with a strange dark-gray light and the heavy, rolling sea looked like a sheet of ridged silver.
    “It’s really weird to think that it never gets completely light during the day in winter. I don’t know if I’d like to live here all year round,” she whispered to Storm. “But it looks amazing, doesn’t it? Like something out of a fairy tale. You can just imagine scaly monsters in the sea andfierce trolls and frost giants living in the mountains.”
    “Trolls and frost giants?” Storm flattened his ears and his silky white tail drooped.
    Robyn grinned. “Sorry. I didn’t mean to scare you. I read about Viking legends and stuff when I knew we were coming here on vacation.”
    Storm still seemed unsure about being aboard a ship. He reared up on to his back legs beside her and pressed his little nose to the window. His big midnight-blue eyes widened, and he gave a worried little whine.
    “Are you okay?” Robyn asked, wishing she hadn’t mentioned giants and trolls now. She hadn’t realized that Storm would take her seriously.
    “I think we are lost,” Storm woofed. “There is so much gray water and sky, but I cannot see any land.”
    “That’s because we’re looking out on to open sea on this side,” Robyn explained. “We can go up on deck, if you like, and then you’ll be able to see land and mountains.”
    Storm nodded, still not looking entirely happy as he jumped back down.
    Robyn didn’t expect that any of the magical wolves from the Moon-claw pack had ever been on a cruise ship; or on any other kind of ship for that matter. In his home world, Storm never left land. No wonder he was ill at ease.
    “Come on, let’s catch up with Mom and Dad,” she said to Storm, changing the subject. “I could eat a horse!”
    Storm’s face showed surprise. “A horse? I have seen one of those. It was very large!”
    “I know. I wouldn’t really want to eat one. It’s just something that people say when they’re really hungry!”

    Storm’s little white muzzle twitched in a grin. Robyn was pleased to see that his anxious look had completely disappeared.
    “I am very hungry, too!” he yapped, falling into step with Robyn as she set off again.
    A buzz of conversation and a riot of delicious smells greeted them as they entered the restaurant. Robyn could see her mom and dad beginning to help themselves from the buffet area. She picked up a tray and joined them.
    “Wow! Look at all this!” she whispered to Storm, her mouth watering. “I hardly know what to choose.”
    There was an enormous display of food with hot and cold dishes of all kinds, salads, sandwiches, desserts, cakes,and baskets of fruit and chocolates. In the center there was an entire miniature village made of iced gingerbread and an amazing ice sculpture of a polar bear.
    Robyn heaped her plate with food for her and Storm, and then followed her mom and dad to an empty table. As soon as she sat down, Storm jumped up on to her lap and curled up.
    After almost two days of just drinking water, Robyn ate hungrily. She slipped bits of meat and fish under the table to Storm without her mom and dad noticing.
    “Human food tastes very good,” Storm woofed, licking his chops when he’d finished. “Thank you, Robyn.”
    Robyn’s mom and dad were wondering what to do next. “We couldgo swimming or watch a movie or even have a sauna,” her mom said. “There’s a game room, shops, an Internet café, and lots of organized events, too.”
    “Could we go up on deck and look at the view?” Robyn asked. If Storm could see that they weren’t far from land, he might feel less nervous about being on
Sea Princess.
    “Fine by me,” her mom said. “I think we should be steaming through a fjord by now. It should be quite spectacular.”
    Up on deck a cold wind was blowing, and Robyn wrapped her coat around Storm to keep him warm. The tiny puppy was peeping out